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Oil industry giants like Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are planning to refit existing oil refineries or build new biofuel plants to produce renewable diesel.

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Sean Mowbray 12 May 2025
The sun sets New York City. Lengthy record-setting heat waves can be costly, greatly increasing ozone and other air pollutants, resulting in deaths and hospitalizations, while also straining energy grids, transportation networks and water supplies. Image by Johannes Plenio (@jplenio) via Unsplash.

Science lays out framework to assess climate liability of fossil fuel majors

Justin Catanoso 9 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025
A mother and baby chimpanzee in the mangroves of Conkouati-Douli National Park.

Protected parks in peril as Republic of Congo ramps up oil drilling

Elodie Toto 7 May 2025

Indonesia defies global coal retreat with captive plant boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2025
protests Mexico

Sheinbaum’s energy agenda under fire as Mexican activists slam LNG megaproject

Joshua Collins and Daniela Díaz 15 Apr 2025
Susana Muhamad interacts with an Indigenous representative.

Colombia’s green transition should be inclusive: Interview with Susana Muhamad, former environment minister

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Apr 2025
Banana crop in Uganda.

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 2 Apr 2025
Aerial view of coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Indonesia’s coal gasification reboot faces backlash over economic, environmental risks

Basten Gokkon 13 Mar 2025
Scorched earth on the banks of the drought-stricken Xingu River on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Will Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Mar 2025
The Cape Orange National Park on the Amazonian coast of the state of Amapá. Block 59 - the site where Petrobras wants to drill - is located offshore 160 kilometers (99 miles) away. Image © Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace.

Oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon – Lula on a course to disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 24 Feb 2025
An acacia plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits

John Cannon 4 Feb 2025

Indonesia mulls Paris Agreement exit, citing fairness and energy transition costs

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Feb 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025
Installation of solar panels.

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 17 Dec 2024
A Climeworks employee stands next to the company’s Mammoth facility in Iceland.

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Sean Mowbray 13 Dec 2024

Certified ethanol produced in Brazil for global airlines linked to slave labor

Poliana Dallabrida from Repórter Brasil 5 Dec 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024

‘Thugs’ disrupt Jakarta climate march as attacks on civil liberties increase

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2024
Workers in "Agbogbloshie," a site with electronic scrap material, in Ghana, 2011.

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 30 Sep 2024

Philippine coal mine roars into production amid waves of complaints

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Sep 2024
Plastic containers piled up.

Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)

Tim Grabiel 27 Aug 2024
Action by Muhammadiyah cadres in Jogja protesting the second largest Islamic religious organization in Indonesia receiving mining permits from the government.

Indonesian Islamic behemoth’s entry into coal mining sparks youth wing revolt

Asad Asnawi 21 Aug 2024
People protest forest damage due to nickel mining, September 2022.

Muhammadiyah latest faith group to join Indonesia religious coal rush

Falahi Mubarok, Irfan Maulana 1 Aug 2024
An elephant standing in knee-high grass somewhere in Murchison Falls NP, Uganda, wearing a half-dozen black birds on its back and head. Image by Travel Aficionado via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Advocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict

Musinguzi Blanshe 30 Jul 2024
Tar sands developments along the Athabasca River in Alberta, British Columbia.

A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jul 2024

Loopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2024
A coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Jokowi’s religious mining rule divides Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization

Asad Asnawi, Christ Belseran, Irfan Maulana 15 Jul 2024
The Padarincang community rejecting the geothermal project. They are worried that it will have a negative impact on their lives in the future.

Java farmers vow to live under own steam as geothermal project falters

Irfan Maulana 12 Jul 2024

Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Caroline Chebet 7 Jun 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

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